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Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research by Little, Anthony C., Jones, Benedict C., DeBruine, Lisa M.

“…Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and…”
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Facial appearance and leader choice in different contexts: Evidence for task contingent selection based on implicit and learned face-behaviour/face-ability associations by Little, Anthony C.

“…Facial appearance plays a role in leader selection and some facial traits are more valued in certain contexts. Here, I examined associations between facial…”
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Perceived differences in social status between speaker and listener affect the speaker's vocal characteristics by Leongómez, Juan David, Mileva, Viktoria R, Little, Anthony C, Roberts, S Craig

“…Non-verbal behaviours, including voice characteristics during speech, are an important way to communicate social status. Research suggests that individuals can…”
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Average ovarian hormone levels, rather than daily values and their fluctuations, are related to facial preferences among women by Marcinkowska, Urszula M., Kaminski, Gwenael, Little, Anthony C., Jasienska, Grazyna

“…Hormones are of crucial importance for human behavior. Cyclical changes of ovarian hormones throughout women's menstrual cycle are suggested to underlie…”
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Facial attractiveness by Little, Anthony C.

“…Facial attractiveness has important social consequences. Despite a widespread belief that beauty cannot be defined, in fact, there is considerable agreement…”
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The influence of steroid sex hormones on the cognitive and emotional processing of visual stimuli in humans by Little, Anthony C

“…Highlights • Steroid sex hormones are responsible for many differences between men and women. • I review indirect and direct evidence for effects of sex…”
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Manipulation of Infant-Like Traits Affects Perceived Cuteness of Infant, Adult and Cat Faces by Little, Anthony C.

“…Physical traits that are characteristic of human infants are referred to as baby‐schema, and the notion that these affect perception of cuteness and elicit…”
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An evolutionary approach to accuracy in social perception by Little, Anthony C

“…An evolutionary approach highlights that accuracy should be expected over error because selection pressures will have shaped social perception to be…”
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No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women’s Hormonal Status by Jones, Benedict C., Hahn, Amanda C., Fisher, Claire I., Wang, Hongyi, Kandrik, Michal, Han, Chengyang, Fasolt, Vanessa, Morrison, Danielle, Lee, Anthony J., Holzleitner, Iris J., O’Shea, Kieran J., Roberts, S. Craig, Little, Anthony C., DeBruine, Lisa M.

“…Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial-attractiveness judgments, findings suggesting that women’s preferences…”
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Evolutionary explanations for financial and prosocial biases: Beyond mating motivation by Little, Anthony C

“…Mating motivation likely plays a role in bias to attractive individuals, but there are other complementary theories drawn from the evolutionary literature…”
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No evidence that women using oral contraceptives have weaker preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces by Marcinkowska, Urszula M, Hahn, Amanda C, Little, Anthony C, DeBruine, Lisa M, Jones, Benedict C

“…Previous research has suggested that women using oral contraceptives show weaker preferences for masculine men than do women not using oral contraceptives…”
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Domain Specificity in Human Symmetry Preferences: Symmetry is Most Pleasant When Looking at Human Faces by Little, Anthony C

“…Visual symmetry has been found to be preferred to asymmetry in a variety of domains and across species. A number of theories propose to explain why symmetry is…”
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Symmetry is related to sexual dimorphism in faces: data across culture and species by Little, Anthony C, Jones, Benedict C, Waitt, Corri, Tiddeman, Bernard P, Feinberg, David R, Perrett, David I, Apicella, Coren L, Marlowe, Frank W

“…Many animals both display and assess multiple signals. Two prominently studied traits are symmetry and sexual dimorphism, which, for many animals, are proposed…”
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The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces by DeBruine, Lisa M., Jones, Benedict C., Crawford, John R., Welling, Lisa L. M., Little, Anthony C.

“…Recent formulations of sexual selection theory emphasize how mate choice can be affected by environmental factors, such as predation risk and resource quality…”
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The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences by Scheller, Meike, de Sousa, Alexandra A., Brotto, Lori A., Little, Anthony C.

“…Sex differences in mate preferences are ubiquitous, having been evidenced across generations and cultures. Their prevalence and persistence have compellingly…”
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Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics by Mileva, Viktoria R., Jones, Alex L., Russell, Richard, Little, Anthony C.

“…Women wearing cosmetics have been associated with a higher earning potential and higher status jobs. However, recent literature suggests that status can be…”
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Perceived Aggressiveness Predicts Fighting Performance in Mixed-Martial-Arts Fighters by Třebický, Vít, Havlíček, Jan, Roberts, S. Craig, Little, Anthony C., Kleisner, Karel

“…Accurate assessment of competitive ability is a critical component of contest behavior in animals, and it could be just as important in human competition,…”
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Do prevailing environmental factors influence human preferences for facial morphology? by Dixson, Barnaby JW, Little, Anthony C, Dixson, Henry GW, Brooks, Robert C

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Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with fa'afafine by Petterson, Lanna J, Dixson, Barnaby J, Little, Anthony C, Vasey, Paul L

“…Androphilia refers to attraction to adult males, whereas gynephilia refers to attraction to adult females. The current study employed self-report and viewing…”
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Exposure to visual cues of pathogen contagion changes preferences for masculinity and symmetry in opposite-sex faces by Little, Anthony C., DeBruine, Lisa M., Jones, Benedict C.

“…Evolutionary approaches to human attractiveness have documented several traits that are proposed to be attractive across individuals and cultures, although…”
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